PROGRAM

Thursday 14, 11am, Auditorium

The Jungle Book

Special screening for people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers, organized by the Alzheimer’s Program of the CCCB.

Friday 15, 6pm, Sala Teatre

Life, Animated

(USA, 2016). Documentary, 92′

Director: Roger Ross Williams

Ron Suskind, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Pulitzer Prize-winner, wrote a true-life story in 2014 entitled Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism. The book, on which this documentary is based, describes the efforts of his family to normalize Owen, an autistic boy who manages to live with his condition by adapting the decisions of his life to the animated characters of Disney.

Opening drink at the Theater Foyer

Saturday 16, 3pm, Sala Teatre

Mais ca vida

(Spain, 2018). Documentary, 72′

Director: Rubén Riós

In 2012, Rubén Ríos engages his team to shoot a short film with people living with intellectual disabilities.

Sunday 17, 3pm, Sala Teatre

Peces de agua dulce (en agua salada)

(Spain, 2018). Documentary, 79′

Director: Marc Serena and Biel Mauri

A documentary that explains not only the most important concepts of autism spectrum disorders, but also reveals what we as a society can do to include people with this disorder.

Sunday 17, 5pm, Sala Teatre

At the Philosopher’s School

(Switzerland, 2018). Documentary, 55′

Director: Fernand Melgar

Five preschool-age children with mental disabilities leave home for the first time to confront a challenge: to go to school. They are going to have to struggle against all manner of new things in a completely unknown environment: other children and adults, games and meals, behavior and communication. Melgar records and observes caregivers, families and the progress made over a one-year period.

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17

The Moment

Caravan located in Plaça Joan Corominas, next to the CCCB.

(Great Britain, 2018).

Director: Richard Ramchurn

Capacity limited to 6 people per session. Register in the foyer of the Auditorium.A film that you can control with your mind. In the near future, the interface between mind and machine has been perfected. Everyone is laced. This 22-minute short film is screened for groups of 6 people. The mental waves of one of these people can change the content every six seconds throughout the film, which means that it has 18 billion possible versions.

Saturday 16, 5pm, Sala Teatre

TECHNOLOGY AND BRAIN

• More Human Than Human

(Netherlands, 2018). Documentary, 79’

Dir. Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting

Artificial intelligence offers promises that may have consequences. The directors attempt to construct a robot that can replace them throughout this film. But the question is: will this infinitely more intelligent, interconnected and possibly self-aware creation make humanity obsolete?

• Talk by Carme Torras (UPC)

• Smartphones: The Dark Side

(Great Britain, 2018). Documentary, 30’

Producer and director: Matthew Hill

People are all increasingly glued to their smartphones and consumed by social media, but why? BBC reporter Hilary Andersson tracks down tech insiders who reveal how social media companies have deliberately developed habit-forming technology to get people hooked.

Sunday 17, 11am to 2pm, Sala Teatre

THE MIND IN CULTURE

11am, play: Who Are You?

Creator and performer: Laura Calvet

Music: Aurora Arenare

Lighting: Dani Sanchez

Directed by Nelson Jara

Alzheimer’s is the most common degenerative brain disease in developed countries. It represents the loss of our memory and history as a society. Childhood and old age join forces to find refuge in play and imagination.

12pm, show: Magic and Brain: More Than an Illusion

Performance by the magician Igor presented by psychologists from the Uszheimer Foundation.

The basic tricks, optical illusions and predictive, rote learning, attention processes that the brain activates when viewing a magic trick are presented in a theoretical and practical manner.